Remote Incident Manager Jobs
Remote incident manager jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first firms and distributed engineering teams hiring for on-call coordination, post-incident reviews, and real-time response ownership. Industries hiring remotely include technology, financial services, and cloud infrastructure. Employers hiring right now include CBRE, Zillow, and Abacus.Ai. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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As a fast-growing sports and active nutrition company, we are shaping the future of health and wellness in CPG. If you're looking to make a big impact in a high-growth, entrepreneurial environment, we'd love to have you on board!
Position Overview
As our IT/OT Security Engineer & Incident Response Lead, you'll be a hands-on security engineer who also leads incidents during business hours across our corporate, cloud, and OT/manufacturing environments. You'll own security engineering and incident coordination, while our managed 24×7 SOC handles monitoring and first response. You'll work closely with IT Infrastructure, OT Engineering, OEM vendors, and leadership, and report to the Director of IT.
If you're looking to bring engineering depth and incident leadership to a fast-growing manufacturing environment, we'd love to speak with you.
Job Responsibilities
- Incident Response (primary): Serve as the business-hours incident lead and Incident Commander during cyber events. Validate and authorize SOC-recommended containment, coordinate IT, OT Engineering, OEMs, and leadership through resolution, and run post-incident reviews.
- Endpoint & Vulnerability: Administer EDR (CrowdStrike Falcon), investigate and tune detections, and drive risk-based vulnerability remediation with Infrastructure and OT, tracking SLAs.
- OT Security (key focus): Own secure remote vendor/OEM access and jump-box environments, maintain OT segmentation and firewall rules, coordinate remediation around production schedules, and support secure architecture for PLC/HMI/SCADA and engineering workstations (ISA/IEC 62443).
- Cloud, Identity & Network: Support Microsoft 365 / Entra ID security, Conditional Access, privileged access reviews, and MFA; review firewall rules, VPN, and network segmentation.
- Governance (support): Support policy, security audits, NIST CSF, cyber insurance questionnaires, and security documentation.
- Projects: Contribute to infrastructure projects, security architecture reviews, and vendor design reviews.
Qualifications & Skills
- OT/industrial security fundamentals — secure remote access, segmentation, PLC/HMI/SCADA, ISA/IEC 62443
- Incident response — able to lead technically during an event
- Hands-on endpoint (EDR) and vulnerability management on comparable tools
- Cloud/identity security basics (Microsoft 365 / Entra ID)
- Strong communicator across technical, plant, and executive audiences
- Manufacturing or food-production environment experience preferred
Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to grow within a critical function in a growing mid-size CPG company
- Collaborative and entrepreneurial work culture
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Career development and growth opportunities
If you are a hands-on security engineer with deep OT expertise and a passion for incident leadership in a fast-growing manufacturing environment, we invite you to apply and join our team!
At 1440 Foods, we're on a mission to energize people to unleash their full potential with a portfolio of great-tasting, high-protein snacks and supplements. Our brands Pure Protein®, Body Fortress®, MET-Rx®, and FITCrunch® make better nutrition accessible, enjoyable, and part of an active lifestyle.
As a fast-growing sports and active nutrition company, we are shaping the future of health and wellness in CPG. If you're looking to make a big impact in a high-growth, entrepreneurial environment, we'd love to have you on board!
Position Overview
As our IT/OT Security Engineer & Incident Response Lead, you'll be a hands-on security engineer who also leads incidents during business hours across our corporate, cloud, and OT/manufacturing environments. You'll own security engineering and incident coordination, while our managed 24×7 SOC handles monitoring and first response. You'll work closely with IT Infrastructure, OT Engineering, OEM vendors, and leadership, and report to the Director of IT.
If you're looking to bring engineering depth and incident leadership to a fast-growing manufacturing environment, we'd love to speak with you.
Job Responsibilities
- Incident Response (primary): Serve as the business-hours incident lead and Incident Commander during cyber events. Validate and authorize SOC-recommended containment, coordinate IT, OT Engineering, OEMs, and leadership through resolution, and run post-incident reviews.
- Endpoint & Vulnerability: Administer EDR (CrowdStrike Falcon), investigate and tune detections, and drive risk-based vulnerability remediation with Infrastructure and OT, tracking SLAs.
- OT Security (key focus): Own secure remote vendor/OEM access and jump-box environments, maintain OT segmentation and firewall rules, coordinate remediation around production schedules, and support secure architecture for PLC/HMI/SCADA and engineering workstations (ISA/IEC 62443).
- Cloud, Identity & Network: Support Microsoft 365 / Entra ID security, Conditional Access, privileged access reviews, and MFA; review firewall rules, VPN, and network segmentation.
- Governance (support): Support policy, security audits, NIST CSF, cyber insurance questionnaires, and security documentation.
- Projects: Contribute to infrastructure projects, security architecture reviews, and vendor design reviews.
Qualifications & Skills
- OT/industrial security fundamentals — secure remote access, segmentation, PLC/HMI/SCADA, ISA/IEC 62443
- Incident response — able to lead technically during an event
- Hands-on endpoint (EDR) and vulnerability management on comparable tools
- Cloud/identity security basics (Microsoft 365 / Entra ID)
- Strong communicator across technical, plant, and executive audiences
- Manufacturing or food-production environment experience preferred
Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to grow within a critical function in a growing mid-size CPG company
- Collaborative and entrepreneurial work culture
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Career development and growth opportunities
If you are a hands-on security engineer with deep OT expertise and a passion for incident leadership in a fast-growing manufacturing environment, we invite you to apply and join our team!
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote incident manager jobs.
- 3 or more years of experience managing IT or operational incidents in a production environment
- ITIL 4 Foundation certification or equivalent service management framework knowledge
- Proficiency with incident management platforms such as PagerDuty, ServiceNow, or Jira Service Management
- Strong verbal communication skills for leading war-room bridge calls under pressure
- Experience writing and presenting post-incident reviews and root cause analyses
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field
Tips for Your Remote Incident Manager Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote incident manager openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your experience and apply directly without sorting through mixed location results.
Show your async communication skills
Remote incident manager roles live and die on written communication. Include examples of incident summaries, blameless postmortems, or runbooks you authored, because remote employers read these as proof you can coordinate response without a war room.
Highlight your on-call toolchain experience
Call out specific tools you have used for alerting, triage, and escalation, such as PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or VictorOps. Remote teams assume you can operate these independently from the start, so naming them directly removes a common screening hesitation.
Prepare for remote incident simulations in interviews
Distributed engineering teams often run a live or tabletop incident scenario during interviews. Practice walking through severity classification, stakeholder communication cadence, and postmortem facilitation out loud, because remote hiring managers judge your process as much as your technical knowledge.
Remote Incident Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote incident manager job?
Target companies with distributed engineering teams, because those organizations build incident response processes that work asynchronously by default. Remote employers screen for written communication skills, comfort with async tools like Slack and PagerDuty, and the ability to coordinate cross-functional response without in-person escalation. Candidates who can show documented runbooks, blameless postmortem experience, or on-call rotation ownership stand out.
Which companies hire remote incident managers?
Companies hiring remote incident managers right now include CBRE, Zillow, and Abacus.Ai, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Remote-first technology firms and distributed SaaS teams account for the largest share of these openings, alongside cloud services and fintech organizations managing 24/7 uptime obligations across time zones.
Can you get a remote incident manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level incident manager roles are harder to land because employers expect you to triage and coordinate independently from day one. You can open the door by earning an ITIL Foundation certification, building familiarity with on-call tools like PagerDuty or Opsgenie, and documenting any helpdesk, NOC, or DevOps support work that involved incident triage, even informally.
Do you need a degree for remote incident manager jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers care more about hands-on incident response experience and certifications like ITIL or CompTIA than a formal degree. Demonstrating that you can own a major incident from detection through postmortem, communicate clearly under pressure in writing, and improve response processes over time carries more weight than your educational background alone.
Which industries hire the most remote incident managers?
The sectors hiring the most remote incident managers are Technology & Software, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. These industries rely on distributed teams and continuous service availability, making remote incident managers essential for coordinating response across engineers, stakeholders, and vendors in different time zones.
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